FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The River and the Palace
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A Vision in a Dream
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A Vision
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A Dream
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kubla Khan, in full Kubla Khan; or, a Vision in a Dream, poetic fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1816. According to Coleridge, he composed the 54-line work while under the influence of laudanum, a form of opium.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main theme in S.T Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” is the contrast between nature’s power and mankind’s power. And in order to convey this theme to the reader, Coleridge used number of symbolisms which is the dome, the river Alph, and the woman and her demon lover.
Detailed explanation-3: -Coleridge has presented ‘Kubla Khan’ as a dream poem so that the reader can also take part in the creative process. Coleridge would have recognized that reading is always a creative act.
Detailed explanation-4: -The speaker says that he once had a vision of the damsel singing of Mount Abora; this vision becomes a metaphor for Coleridge’s vision of the 300-hundred-line masterpiece he never completed.